0 present participle of tinker
1 to make small changes to something, especially in an attempt to repair or improve it:
Unless its contingent and intersubjective aspects are recognized, it is unlikely to produce good intelligence, regardless of its susceptibility to political tinkering.
Here, legislators are likely to anticipate its behaviour and the degree of ex post tinkering that a specific policy could be subject to.
The democratic cause advances through motivated and cumulative tinkering with the arrangements underlying such schemes.
Are they at the level of invention or of 'tinkering'?
If electoral tinkering could not be performed by means of emergency powers and federal intervention, an absolute majority of electoral votes was not likely.
Some regimes, of course, prove more successful at this task than others through constitutional and legislative tinkering, judicial manipulation, and tolerating legislative bodies and trials.
All parties had access to this research, and minor tinkering has taken place with phraseology in the new edition.
The answer is negotiable; but must be stated and addressed if tinkering is to amount to science.
